An improved treatment procedure for testicular biopsy specimens offers more efficient sperm recovery: Case series

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 376-379

  Nagy, Zsolt P ^a   Devroey, Paul ^a   Verheyen, Greta ^a   Van Steirteghem, André C ^a   Tournaye, Herman ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Assisted fertilization; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Male infertility; Microinjection; Nonobstructive azoospermia; Red blood cell lysis; Testicular biopsy; Testicular sperm recovery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTIS BIOPSY;

EID: 0343742658     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)81534-8     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Van Steirteghem AC, Nagy Z, Joris H, Liu J, Staessen C, Smitz J, et al. High fertilization and implantation rates after intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Hum Reprod 1993;8: 1061-6.
2. Devroey P, Liu J, Nagy Z, Tournaye H, Silber SJ, Van Steirteghem AC. Normal fertilization of human oocytes after testicular sperm extraction and intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Fertil Steril 1994;62:639-41.
3. Nagy Z, Liu J, Janssenswillen C, Silber S, Devroey P, Van Steirteghem A. Using ejaculated, fresh, and frozen-thawed epididymal and testicular spermatozoa gives rise to comparable results after intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Fertil Steril 1995;63:808-15.
4. Verheyen G, De Croo I, Tournaye H, Pletnicx I, Devroey P, Van Steirteghem A. Comparison of four mechanical methods to retrieve spermatozoa from testicular tissue. Hum Reprod 1995;10:2956-9.